Lucian

This is a good book. I recommend it to anyone who wants to deploy a web application, even if they use any PaaS or IaaS service that provides some abstractions for most operations or has an easy deployment process. Setting up your server for a web application will give you a better understanding of how things work, and this will help you a lot in how you code or use other cloud services.

Avo inspires me to quickly try new ideas. The combination of Rails + Avo allows me to spin up quickly a new project and create a good working foundation for an MVP. I think this is important as in the SaaS world we are a bit past the stage where the launching of a project is just a landing page. To really see if your idea will have traction most of the time you really have to show the users...